The transcription that follows is the text of a paper originally delivered by Stuart Robinson to the First General Presbyterian Council that convened in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1877. Robinson represented the United...
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A Note on Presbytery Meetings and Minutes
Presbytery meetings of the past followed dockets that were built around a general framework or order of events that were noted in the minutes. Minutes were not a transcription of all that was said during the...
William Richmond Smith, The Middle Brother
William Richmond Smith was born May 10, 1752 in Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Rev. Robert Smith and Elizabeth (Blair) Smith. He was one of seven children, two of which died in infancy, two became...
Samuel Stanhope Smith, Princeton College President
The image of Samuel Stanhope Smith shows him in his later years. Archibald Alexander described his impressions of Dr. Smith when they first met at an earlier time in his tenure at Princeton College. I had met Dr. Samuel...
William H. McGuffey, America’s Educator
The cabin pictured in the header is currently in Greenfield Village of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where it was relocated from its original site. It is a typical small pioneer cabin with simple notched...
Review, Donald Vedders, Dakota Dawn, One Woman’s Struggle to Survive on a South Dakota Homestead
As immigrants settled the United States and its territories in the nineteenth century they tended to gather in colonies according to their common nationalities and associated languages. This is true of the French...
